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by 1-6 1377 days ago
We can’t let politics run the nation’s energy policies. The decision makers need to be a neutral body of elected officials.
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An elected official is by definition not neutral. I think representative government is as good as it gets, but it will never be neutral or bereft of politics.
The usage of the word "politics" has somehow become so distorted that people are begging for non-political government.
Neutral and elected are mutually exclusive. ;-)
Neutral and decisions are mutually exclusive, even